Insights into mudstone sedimentology, organic richness, and anoxia at the opening of the Cretaceous Interior Seaway: Colorado's Skull Creek Formation

• Main Author: Sullivan, Patrick M.
• Other Authors: Sonnenberg, Stephen A., Anderson, Donna S., Hagadorn, James W.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Colorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library 2021
• Subjects: mudstone sedimentology; source rock; Western Cretaceous Interior Seaway; Skull Creek; Dakota; Wattenberg field; Arctic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11124/176414

Includes bibliographical references. 2021 Spring. The Skull Creek Formation is a suite of shallow marine mudstones and fine sandstones within the Lower Cretaceous Dakota Group. The formation signals the onset of marine deposition in the Western Interior Seaway (WIS) and is a potential source rock to...